Unusual Treatment Shows Promise for Kids With Brain Tumors
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This 2016 photo provided by the family shows Jake Kestler, center, with his parents, Gallite and Josh, and his sister, Lily. This is one month before he was diagnosed with brain cancer. (Family Photo via AP)
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For many years, a deadly type of childhood cancer has escaped science’s best treatments. But now doctors have made progress with an unusual treatment. They inject a virus into the brain to infect the
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Unusual treatment shows promise for kids with brain tumors
MARILYNN MARCHIONE, AP Chief Medical Writer
April 11, 2021
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1of6This 2016 photo provided by the family shows Jake Kestler, center, with his parents, Gallite and Josh, and his sister, Lily, a month before he was diagnosed with brain cancer. Jake received a genetically-modified virus-based treatment for the cancer when he was 12. He lived for a year and four months after that, long enough to celebrate his bar mitzvah, go with his family to Hawaii and see a brother be born, said his father, Josh Kestler, of Livingston, N.J. Jake s parents started a foundation, Trail Blazers for Kids, to further research. (Family Photo via AP)APShow MoreShow Less
Marilynn Marchione April 11, 2021 - 11:01 PM
For decades, a deadly type of childhood cancer has eluded scienceâs best tools. Now doctors have made progress with an unusual treatment: Dripping millions of copies of a virus directly into kidsâ brains to infect their tumors and spur an immune system attack.
A dozen children treated this way lived more than twice as long as similar patients have in the past, doctors reported Saturday at an American Association for Cancer Research conference and in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Although most of them eventually died of their disease, a few are alive and well several years after treatment something virtually unheard of in this situation.